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Evota Fleming

b. circa 1322

Birth

Evota Fleming was born circa 1322.

Parents

FatherMalcolm ("the Good") Fleming, of Fulwood, 1st Earl of Wigtown (b. circa 1282, d. before 11 January 1358)
MotherMarjory the King's nurse, foster-mother to King David II, Countess of Wigtown (b. circa 1290, d. before 7 July 1361)

Family life

John, of Ramsay, and Evota Fleming were married in 1342.1,2,3,4

Partner with John, of Ramsay (b. circa 1320)

Property5

Evota Fleming possessed recieved (with her husband) the thanage of Tannadyce from the King before 1359 in Tannadyce.2,4,6 She possessed was favoured in retaining estates that, by law, were meant to be resumed by the crown circa 1359.7

Citations

  1. [S23] Peter Barns-Graham, "Families Database," pedigrees, Stirnet Limited, Families Database (https://www.stirnet.com/: downloaded 2000), Fleming of Boghall and Wigtown at https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ff/fleming01.php.
  2. [S28] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh: T and A Constable, 1911), vol viii, Fleming Earl of Wigtown pages 519 - 558.
  3. [S41] Richard Oram, "The making and breaking of a comital family: Malcolm Fleming, first Earl of Wigtown, and Thomas Fleming, second Earl of Wigtown," The International Review of Scottish Studies, volume 42 (2017), print (https://www.irss.uoguelph.ca/index.php/irss/article/view/3558/4045 : accessed), p 19.
  4. [S107] Thomas Thomson, editor, The accounts of the great chamberlains of Scotland: and some other officers of the crown (Edinburgh: The Bannatyne Club, 1817), vol i, p 343; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/accountsofgreatc00bann/page/92/mode/2up : viewed 7 May 2025.
  5. [S107] Thomas Thomson, editor, The accounts of the great chamberlains of Scotland: and some other officers of the crown (Edinburgh: The Bannatyne Club, 1817), vol i, p 280; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/accountsofgreatc00bann/page/92/mode/2up : viewed 7 May 2025.
  6. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), p 589; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
  7. [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), vol 2, p xl, note 3; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
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Last Edited 7 May 2025